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Re: whatever happened with bash_completion, bashdb


On Mon, August 1, 2005 1:30 pm, Eric Blake said:
> Sourcing bash_completion must be done for every interactive shell startup,
> login or otherwise, for the completions to be available.  And even on my
> 2.5 GHz WinXP machine, "time . /etc/bash_completion" reports 1.346 s.
> Also, I anticipate the time will only grow as upstream adds more
> completions (it already includes 266 kbytes among 28 files to be sourced).
>  So based on your argument, I've decided that the bash_completion is not
> enabled by default, and that you must edit your ~/.bashrc to source it
> (and make sure your ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.bashrc, to cover login
> shells) if you desire the features.  I will also provide patches to
> base-files to make this more obvious to new users.

Not a problem, just send me the patches :)

J.


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